ACCELERATED CONCEPT TO PRODUCT (ACP) PROCESS WEBINARS

FEATURED COURSES• New! Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process for Design Optimization Webinar -

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SAE INTERNATIONAL IS PLEASE TO OFFER TWO NEW WEBINARS ON THE GROUNDBREAKING ACCELERATED CONCEPT TO PRODUCT (ACP)PROCESS Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process is a performance-driven, holistic, product design and development method intended to lower costs, reduce mass, and improve performance. The tasks associated with ACP create a balance between structure and strength, synchronizing the individual facets of the product development process. ACP incorporates multiple design tools to generate an optimal design solution that reduces product design and development time and costs, reduces product mass, and improves product performance.

Constructed and taught by the developer of the process, the Accelerated Concept to Product Process webinars introduce you to ACP and the influence of effective use on product design, development, and manufacturing. Dr. Akbar Farahani takes you through the steps of ACP and uses real-world cases to instruct on how optimizing the data gathered from the use of existing design tools through ACP will generate mass reduction, increase product performance, and keep your products competitive in a global marketplace.

LEARN MORE ON HOW U.S. STEEL USED ACP IN THEIR WORK WITH THE FUTURE STEEL VEHICLE (FSV) PROGRAM.GO TO http://bit.ly/SAE-ACP TO READ THE CASE STUDY.

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NEW! ACCELERATED CONCEPT TO PRODUCT (ACP) PROCESS FOR DESIGN OPTIMIZATION WEBINAR

This webinar is complementary to the webinar - Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process using a 3G Design Approach Webinar – see course description on page 4.

This two-session webinar will offer information for those who would like to start with the design of initial product structure from a general design space, a shape, or ideas available, or knowledge of design space and constraints. The instructor will show how you can use and locate the first initial load path (material) using topology optimization and special CAD tools. You will also learn how to generate your first initial pre-concept structure, with general shape of all necessary and required structures, based on your Load Path. As an illustration, the course will go through vehicle body in white (BIW) pre-concept development.

LEARNING OBJECTIVESBy connecting with this webinar, you will be able to:

• Explore Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process in today’s product design environment

• Apply holistic key enablers for efficient design and weight reduction in the ACP-Concept process

• Use Multidisciplinary Design (MD) Topology Optimization to solve design problems incorporating a number of disciplines and assess the material load path based on multidisciplinary loading assumptions

• Generate and design the initial geometry of a design concept based on the topology optimization skeleton and early manufacturing requirements

• Identify a Load Path Mapping (LPM) process

WHO SHOULD ATTENDChief engineers, product and design managers, principal engineers, program managers and lead design/CAE engineers will benefit most from this advanced course.

Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process is a performance-driven, holistic, product design development method intended to create a balance between structure and strength, synchronizing the individual facets of the product development process.

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CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS • Accelerated Concept to Product Design Process

Methodology overview

• Case study

• MD Topology Optimization to create an ACP Design

• The product design space based on styling and packaging requirements

• Loads and constraints assumptions and the remaining factors and requirements formed around these definitions

• Topology software and multidisciplinary load representations, including crash, stiffness, etc., for all major loads

• Topology optimization evaluation

• How to estimate initial geometry of a skeleton of pre-concept product design

• First Pre-Concept Design Based on Topology Skeleton

• Geometry interpreted into a CAD model using engineering judgment and special software tools

• Initial design targets based on regulations and corporate requirements

• Performance evaluation of pre-concept structure based on initial manufacturing requirements

• Load Path Mapping Process

• Pre-concept CAD and CAE structure model are finalized to initiate Low Fidelity Concept Design (LFCD), Bill of Material (BOM)

• Evaluate the first pre-concept design for major loading attributes (crash, stiffness, etc.)

INSTRUCTORAkbar FarahaniVice President and Director of Global Engineering ETA Inc.

I.D.# WB1402

SCHEDULE April 22-24, 2014 Live Online

FEESList: $415Members Classic: $374 Premium: $353 Elite: $332

TWO, 2-HOUR SESSIONS/.4 CEUS

Get more information and register: training.sae.org/webinars/wb1402

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NEW! ACCELERATED CONCEPT TO PRODUCT (ACP) PROCESS USING A 3G DESIGN APPROACH WEBINAR

This webinar is complementary to the webinar- Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process for Design Optimization Webinar – See course description on page 2.

This three-session webinar will offer information on how to design a concept model from a clean sheet using a holistic 3G design approach (ACP-3G), where material types and its properties (Grades and Gauges), Geometry (shape), and manufacturing process can work together for the optimum weight and performance. The instructor will show how to use a systemic design process approach addressing the concept design for system structure for general design shape (section and size it based on manufacturing constraints). The process will use leading CAE, Optimization and CAD design tools for illustration. ACP-3G will show the design of structures with the most efficient resources (Design and CAE head counts) and optimum shape and material (Grade and Gauges) for the minimum cost for manufacturing. The course will also go through vehicle body-in-white (BIW) design process. It will identify the sizes and shape of the major components of a vehicle (Low Fidelity 3G) and finally, high-fidelity design of the components for manufacturing in both a sub-system and full system.

LEARNING OBJECTIVESBy connecting with this webinar, you will be able to:

• Explore Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process in today’s product design environment

• Apply holistic key enablers for efficient design and weight reduction in the ACP-Concept process

• Define 3G design optimization of a structure that incorporates the optimal Geometry (shape) and material (Grade and Gauges), at the lowest cost for manufacturing

• Define and incorporate an efficient Load Management System (LMS)

• Describe and complete Full System MD (Multidisciplinary) 3G, Low Fidelity 3G (LF3G) optimization

• Describe decupling process and identify the optimal design sub-system concept based on 3G

• Optimization for manufacturing requirements and cost constraints (Mass, Performance and Cost)

Today’s transportation industries are facing multi-disciplinary challenges. The product design and development process challenges often contradict each other, for example cost, weight, quality and performance.

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I.D.# WB1403

SCHEDULE May 5-9, 2014 Live Online

FEESList: $535Members Classic: $482 Premium: $455 Elite: $428

THREE, 2-HOUR SESSIONS/.6 CEUS

Get more information and register: training.sae.org/webinars/wb1403

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WHO SHOULD ATTENDChief engineers, product and design managers, program managers and lead design/CAE engineers will benefit most from this advanced course.

CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS • Accelerated Concept to Product Design Process

Methodology - Overview

• Low Fidelity 3G (LF3G) Optimization Process

• LF3G FE model parameterization , LF3G design and monitoring processes

• 3G Optimization communication ( CAD/CAE, Optimization and the solver software)

• LF3G Process outputs; new improved load paths, overall components section sizes (geometry) and grades and gauges for Decoupling and Sub-System Optimization

• Apply Load Path Mapping (LPM) analysis of a Low Fidelity Concept Design (LFCD) Model

• Decoupling Process 3G Sub-System Optimization

• Design components based on the manufacturing process

• Sub-system and full system comparison study

• Sub-System 3G optimization process (same as LF3G Process)

• Objectives, performance, design variables and manufacturing constraints (cost) in the 3G optimization process

• Integration of 3G Sub-System Optimization, Full system 1G/2G Optimization and Final

• 3G Sub-system Optimization and manufacturing feasibility

• 1G/2G optimization for system correction

• DFMA and full system evaluation for all attributes

• BOM, Joining Process, Assembly Process and Manufacturability confirmation

INSTRUCTORAkbar FarahaniVice President and Director of Global Engineering ETA Inc.

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